Year: | 1977 |
Competition: | Brisbane Rugby League |
Duration: | March 25 – September 18, 1977 |
Teams: | 8 |
Premiers: | Eastern Suburbs |
Minor Premiers: | Redcliffe Dolphins |
Matches: | 89 |
Points: | 2898 |
Player Of The Year: | Alan Currie (Rothmans Medal) |
Prevseason Year: | 1976 |
Nextseason Year: | 1978 |
The 1977 Brisbane Rugby League season was the 70th season of the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. Eight rugby league teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Eastern Suburbs and Redcliffe clubs.
Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs, Northern Suburbs and Redcliffe.
Club | Home ground | Coach | Captain | |
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Des Morris | ||||
Ross Strudwick | ||||
Bishop Park | Bruce Warwick | |||
Corbett Park | John Lohman | David Wright | ||
Ian Pearce | ||||
Wayne Bennett | ||||
Bob Green | ||||
Dennis Ward |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Redcliffe | 21 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 339 | 237 | +102 | 28 | |
2 | Western Suburbs | 21 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 383 | 331 | +52 | 24 | |
3 | Eastern Suburbs (P) | 21 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 378 | 323 | +55 | 22 | |
4 | Northern Suburbs | 21 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 414 | 401 | +11 | 22 | |
5 | Past Brothers | 21 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 301 | 341 | -40 | 22 | |
6 | Fortitude Valley | 21 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 380 | 363 | +17 | 18 | |
7 | Wynnum-Manly | 21 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 259 | 376 | -117 | 18 | |
8 | Southern Suburbs | 21 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 328 | 410 | -82 | 14 |
Home | Score | Away | Match information | ||||||
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width=17% | Date and time | width=17% | Venue | width=11% | Referee | width=7% | Crowd | ||
Playoff | |||||||||
align=left | Northern Suburbs | 21-10 | align=left | Past Brothers | 23 August 1977 | Lang Park | Stan Scamp | ||
Semi-finals | |||||||||
align=left | Eastern Suburbs | 21-11 | align=left | Northern Suburbs | 28 August 1977 | Lang Park | Ian Smith | ||
align=left | Redcliffe | 5-4 | align=left | Western Suburbs | 4 September 1977 | Lang Park | Eddie Ward | ||
Preliminary Final | |||||||||
align=left | Eastern Suburbs | 9-5 | align=left | Western Suburbs | 11 September 1977 | Lang Park | R. Thomas | ||
Grand Final | |||||||||
align=left | Eastern Suburbs | 17-13 | align=left | Redcliffe | 18 September 1977 | Lang Park | Eddie Ward | 37,000 |
Eastern Suburbs 17 (Tries: John Callus, Steve Farquhar, Wayne Lindenburg. Goals: Greg Holben 4)
Redcliffe 13 (Tries: Forrester Grayson. Goals: Ian Pierce 5)[1] [2]